Journal of Language and Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Language and Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Shaping gender policies at the COPs67
Review of Hart (2025): Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics28
How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse24
News on fake news14
Review of Shi-xu (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies13
Limits, frontiers, antagonism13
Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power12
Critical junctures beyond the black box12
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments11
Review of Scotto di Carlo (2025): A Critical Discourse Analysis of Violence against Women: From D.A.R.V.O. to Institutional Courage11
Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective10
Review of Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections10
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds10
Review of Demata (2023): Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-historical Analysis9
Perception of charisma in text and speech9
Equivocation in media communication9
Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict8
“You are fake news”8
Review of Rüdiger & Dayter (2025): Manipulation, Influence and Deception: The Changing Landscape of Persuasive Language7
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Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites6
Serbian Progressive Party’s shameless normalization of expressing sycophancy toward the leader6
Setting boundaries between crime and rights6
Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’6
“The rock of stability?”6
Review of Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building5
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South5
Examining political influence on language5
Multimodality as civic participation5
Enemy narratives5
Constitutive representation of womanhood5
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification4
Traditional beliefs as target and weapon4
The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism4
The aesthetic values of the semiotic choices in Arab protests4
The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–20204
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A fence of opportunity4
Visions of the good future4
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump4
‘A resilient Europe’?4
Review of Closs Stephens (2022): National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political4
The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley3
Discourses on Racism and Resilience3
No one needs to teach Macedonians what Europe is3
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’3
Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament3
Review of Nartey (2022): Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream3
From socialism to neoliberalism3
Navigating the ideological tide3
Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse3
Discourse theory and the turn to practice3
Review of Seargeant (2024): The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate3
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Subverting EU legal concepts2
On the language of liberalism2
The construction and legitimation of Elisa Loncón as a Mapuche female political leader on Instagram2
Review of Handford & Gee (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis2
Review of Stavrakakis (2024): Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research2
Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh2
Review of Russell (2024): Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression2
Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change2
Review of Taylor, Goodman & Dunmore (2025): The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities2
Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics2
From controversy to common ground2
Review of Ali (2024): Policy, Media, and the Shaping of Spain-Morocco Relations: Discursive Representations of Migration to Ceuta and Melilla2
Review of Arnall & Chenoweth (2025): Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics2
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The language of power or the power of language?2
Review of Bennett (2025): Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences2
Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings2
“Hope dies – Action begins”2
Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream2
“We pursue justice”2
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Populist radical right beyond Europe2
Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis1
Jair Bolsonaro and the defining attributes of the populist radical right in Brazil1
New opportunities for discourse studies1
The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile1
Racialised vocabularies of resilience1
Mass identifications and mythical violence1
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant1
Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice1
Far-right discourse in Brazil1
A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers1
Review of Ajšić (2025): Modeling Metalinguistic Discourse and Language Ideologies1
Review of Statham (2022): Critical discourse analysis: A practical introduction to power in language1
The populist radical right in Australia1
Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate1
Fighting authoritarian populism with populism in polarised Turkey1
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press1
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Review of Guenther (2024): The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It1
Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders1
Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts1
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Review of Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study1
Review of Carpentier & Wimmer (2025): Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach1
The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective1
“Türkiye,” not “Turkey”1
Review of Ilie (2024): Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis1
France’s “drôle de guerre”1
‘They will not survive here’1
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Review of Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy1
Review of Merkle & Baer (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship1
“A closed border is a compassionate border”0
The awkward rhetoric of Spanish liberalism0
Review of Cheng & Machin (2023): The law and critical discourse studies0
ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game0
From capitalist production to neoliberal lifestyle0
Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions0
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Representation of social class in Korean ELT materials0
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidential inaugurals0
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)0
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians0
“Thoughts & prayers,” conspiracy theories, and laughing emojis0
Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking0
What’s in a name?0
Populism and contingency0
Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics0
Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind”0
Discourse of self-legitimation0
Normalization of ecological civilization in Chinese news media0
Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey0
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore0
Representing societies in language teaching textbooks0
Review of Feng (2023): Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China0
“Almost a mother tongue”0
The groundwork of Putin’s war0
Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning0
Review of Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World0
Racialising the resilient brain0
Review of Leal (2021): English and Translation in the European Union: Unity and Multiplicity in the Wake of Brexit0
A meaningless buzzword or a meaningful label? How do Spanish politicians usepopulismoandpopulistaon Twitter?0
“First forced displacements, then slaughter”0
Interests convergence in global human rights politics0
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“A massive field of action”0
Review of Íñigo-Mora & Lastres-López (2024): Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics0
Review of Fetzer & Weizman (2019): The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres0
Disalignment in the EU0
The construction of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” in China Daily0
Review of Forchtner (2023): Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature0
“We are workers, we are not slaves”0
“There is new technology here that can perform miracles”0
Surprises, symbols, and mainstreaming0
Embodied resilience and political resistance0
Review of Stavrakakis & Katsambekis (2024): Research Handbook on Populism0
Review of Huang (2024): The Class and Gender Politics of Chinese Online Discourse: Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Tensions, and Co-option0
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Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing0
Review of Wu (2023): Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
Review of Tachtiris (2024): Translation and race0
Review of Almanna & House (2023): Translation Politicised and Politics Translated0
Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication0
Belonging and borders0
Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South0
Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates0
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Review of Wang & Huan (2025): Negotiating Climate Change in Public Discourse: Insights from Critical Discourse Studies0
Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”0
Review of Stibbe (2024): Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By0
Navigating Brexit through fear0
Review of Moore & Hauser (2025): Political Illustration: The Visual Language of Propaganda, Censorship, and Dissent0
From social awareness to authoritarian other0
“The youths are wiser now”0
Review of van Dijk (2024): Social movement discourse: An introduction0
Review of Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives0
Borderless fear?0
Claims of ownership, claims of dignity0
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Entrepreneur or capitalist?0
Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine0
From “them” to “us”?0
“Serial rorters or mere mortals?” Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers about how male and female government leaders handle money0
Supplementing the tropes0
Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse0
Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power0
Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands0
Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal0
Review of Frawley (2024): Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age0
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action0
Community organising and radical democracy0
Doing gender at the far right0
“Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”0
Review of Waring & Tadic (2024): Critical Conversation Analysis: Inequality and Injustice in Talk-in-Interaction0
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The Tennessee three0
‘We’re saying that we trust them but really we don’t’0
Review of Yu (2022): Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach0
Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society0
In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right0
The leader and the people0
Review of Harvey (2025): The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions0
Discourse and transformation0
The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media0
Studying affect through discourse theory0
Review of Parnell (2024): Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse0
Moral panic and (in)security0
Beyond the law0
The populist radical right beyond Europe0
Activism or slacktivism?0
Review of Chambers & Demir (2024): Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Resilience in Finnish security and defence rhetoric0
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine0
Review of Koller (2023): Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections0
Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change0
Review of Korhonen, Kotze & Tyrkkö (2023): Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space0
A Europeanisation of American politics?0
Political homophobia0
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“Does being pretty help?”0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
Review of Newth (2024): Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective0
Resilience in labour markets, a curse?0
Linguistic landscapes of activism0
The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit0
The power of language0
Review of Claridge (2025): News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press0
Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer0
Leadership in numbers0
The good, the bad, and the ugly0
Legitimation in revolutionary discourse0
Review of Lam Sut I (2023): A Corpus-assisted Multimodal Analysis to Policy Addresses of Macao SAR Government: Two Decades of Change in Macao0
Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent0
Language and culture wars0
National identity revisited0
Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative0
Review of Van Dijk (2024): Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right0
BIOMETRIC CITIZENS in smart cities0
Inside the echo chamber0
The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse0
The normalization of liquid racism in migrant narratives0
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Review of Serafis (2023): Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece0
When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy0
Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and human-orientation in environmental discourse0
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Reverberations0
The role of gender in the evaluation of politicians in an online debate0
Review of Deringer & Ströbel (2022): International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches0
Review of Du (2025): Chinese Political Discourse in Translation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
Review of Rajandran & Lee (2023): Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance0
Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism0
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